Diary, Feb/Mar 1668/69

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think it is not altogether so beautiful as the oyle pictures; but I will
have some of one, and some of another. Thence set him down at Little
Turnstile, and so I home, and there eat a little dinner, and away with my
wife by coach to the King's playhouse, thinking to have seen "The
Heyresse," first acted on Saturday last; but when we come thither, we
find no play there; Kinaston, that did act a part therein, in abuse to
Sir Charles Sedley, being last night exceedingly beaten with sticks, by
two or three that assaulted him, so as he is mightily bruised, and forced
to keep his bed. So we to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "
She Would if She Could," arid so home and to my office to business, and
then to supper and to bed. This day, going to the play, The. Turner met
us, and carried us to her mother, at my Lady Mordaunt's; and I did carry
both mother and daughter with us to the Duke of York's playhouse, at next
door.